Period 1 Teaching date: August 26th 2019
Unit 1: LOCAL ENVIRONMENT
Lesson 1: Getting started

I. Objectives: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
-Identify the topic of the lesson (Local environment) and recognize what the unit includes.Use the knowledge in the text to complete the tasks given.
- Use some vocabularies and structures to talk about traditional crafts and places of interest in an area.
- Respect and be proud of traditional crafts and speak about the places of interest seriously.
II. Language focus:Lexical items related to traditional crafts
Phrasal verbs
III. Materials:sub -board, pictures, cassette
IV. Procedures:
I. Warm up
-Ask Ss to open their books and look at the picture and the phrase under GETTING STARTED. Ask them some questions:
"Who and what can you see in the picture?"
"Where are they?"
"What do you think the people in the picture are talking about?"
- Ss answer the questions as a class. If they mention `Bat Trang`, elicit what they know about this village.
II. Presentation.
Activity 1:
- Play the recording and have Ss follow along. After that, Ss can compare their answers with the information in the dialogue and add some more details to their answers.
a/ Ss work independently to find the words with the given meanings in the dialogue. Allow Ss to share their answers before asking them to discuss as a class. Remember to ask Ss to read out the lines in the dialogue that contain the words. Quickly write the correct answers on the board.
* Answer keys:
craft
set up
take over
artisans
attraction
specific region
remind
look round

- Have Ss look at the Watch out! box and quickly read the information. Tell them that there are some similar expressions such as `as far as I can remember`, `as far as I can see`, or `as far as I can tell`.
b/ Have Ss read the questions to make sure they understand them. Ask them firstly to answer the questions without reading the dialogue again. Ss exchange their answers with a classmate. Now ask them to check their answers by reading the dialogue again. Ask for Ss` answers.
* Answer keys:
1.They are at Phong’s grand-parents’ workshop in Bat Trang
2. It’s about 700 years old.
3. His great-grandmother did.
4. buy things for their house and make pottery themselves there.
5. It’s in Hue.
6. Because the handicrafts remind them of a specific region.
- T may elicit and explain some vocabularies (if necessary): artisant, handicraft, set up, …
III. Practice.
Activity 2:
- Have Ss look at the pictures. Tell Ss that in the box are some traditional handicrafts of different regions in Viet Nam. Ss match these handicrafts with the pictures. Ss compare their answers in pairs before giving their answers to T.
* Answer keys:
A. paintings
B. drums
C. marble sculptures D. pottery
E. silk
F. lacquerware
G. conical hats
H. lanterns

Activity 3:
-Tell Ss to complete the sentences with the words/phrases in The complete sentences will give Ss information about the places where the handicrafts are made. Call on two Ss to write their answers on the board. Confirm the correct answers.
- If time allows, T may organize a short activity to check Ss` short-term memory. Have -Ss close their books. Point at each of Ss` answers on the board and quickly Ss have to call out the place where this handicraft is made. Ss can also be asked to share any other places that produce these handicrafts.
* Answer keys:
conical hat
lanterns
silk
paintings
Pottery
marble sculptures

IV. Further practice
Activity 4:
a/ Ss work in pairs to do the quiz. The pair which has the answers the fastest is invited to read out their answers. Elicit feedback from other pairs. Confirm the correct answers.
* Answer keys:
1. park 2. museum 3. zoo 4. beach 5. beauty spot
b/ Ss work in groups to write a similar quiz about places of interest. Set a time limit of about five to seven minutes. When time is up, ask the first group to read out a question in their quiz. Ss from other groups give the answer. The group confirms the correct answer. The second group then reads out a question in their quiz. This question should be different from the one of the first group. Continue the activity until all the groups have read out all of their questions or when time is up.
*HOMEWORK
- Write a short paragraph (80 -> 100 words) about a traditional crafts you know.
- Write the phrasal verbs (in the dialogue) and then learn them by heart.